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Guns roar after stones fall silent; 2 ultras killed Jaish group was on way to attack Srinagar Army camp ahead of Obama visit 10/22/2010 12:05:57 AM Ahmed Ali Fayyaz Early Times Report SRINAGAR, Oct 21: In a joint operation, Police and Army today foiled militants’ plan to strike on a military formation in Srinagar ahead of the US President Barrack Obama’s visit to India. Troops were in search of a militant who was suspected to be hiding in Maloora village, on Srinagar-Bandipore Road even as two heavily armed militants of Jaish-e-Mohammad outfit, including a Myanmar national trained in Afghanistan, got killed in the day-long gunbattle in the capital city outskirts. Director General of Police, Kuldeep Khoda, told Early Times that Police and Army carried out a joint operation at village Maloora in Srinagar outskirts, on Srinagar-Bandipore Road, on the basis of a specific information in the forenoon today. He said that all three militants of the group hiding at a residential house were believed to have died in the day-long gunbattle even as only two dead bodies had been recovered. He said that Police and troops were in search of the third militant who could be either arrested or declared dead only after recovery of his dead ...   READ MORE

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Can a Kashmiri Muslim be a true Indian? 10/22/2010 12:05:37 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 21: Can a Kashmiri Muslim be a true Indian? Some persons say yes but only after paying a huge price. The question, however, provides an opportunity to tread on a forbidden path. People by and large believe that Sheikh Family is the only Muslim family in Kashmir that owes allegiance to India. But an in-depth analysis of three generation Abdullah's forces one to hold a contrary view. Sher-e-Kashmir was an Indian only when in power. When not in power he dreamed of an independent state and even looked towards Pakistan at times. Dr Farooq Abdullah swears by unity and integrity of India. Every second day he says Kashmir was an Atoot Aung (Integral part). But dur...   READ MORE   BJP questions political resolution from non political interlocutors Says Cong silence on Omar statement intriguing 10/22/2010 12:05:14 AM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 21: Indicating that BJP was not happy with the composition of three interlocutors for Kashmir, party National General secretary Vijay Goel today questioned as to what political solution Prime Minister intended to derive by appointing non political persons for the job. Asserting that entire nation considers Accession of J&K with India as final, BJP leader also questioned ‘eerie silence’ maintained by the Congress party over the recent statement made by the state Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on the issue of accession of Jammu and Kashmir with the Union of India. “One fails to understand what kind of political resolution PM is expecting by appointing non pol...   READ MORE   Seasonal business earns Krishan Lal fame, fortunes Success story of lesser known 10/22/2010 12:04:36 AM KUNAL SHRIVATSA EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 21: He virtually started from a scratch without help from any quarter and today he rolls in lakhs for the self initiated small business venture.His success story replete with sustained hardwork only goes on to prove that if a person has self-belief and confidence, he can achieve success and fame no matter he hails from a lesser known village in a small town. Krishan Lal,52, of Tarore, a small town 20kilometers from here on Jammu-Pathankot National Highway, has proved it that way by introducing a unique idea of setting up a make shift unit to prepare Vermicelli (Fenia) and Kattlame on the occasion of Karva Chauth. Every year 27 to 28 people f...   READ MORE   Congress sweeps LAHDC polls 10/21/2010 11:42:13 PM M. Ramzan Khan EARLY TIMES REPORT Leh, Oct 21: The Congress in Leh today almost made a clean sweep in the 4th general election to the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Leh. Out of twenty four seats, the results for which declared today, the Congress has bagged nineteen seats. Congress had already won two seats uncontested. With the declaration of the results Congress tally has now gone to twenty one out of total twenty six seats of LAHDC Leh. The BJP has won four seats while one seat went to independent candidate from Thicksay constituency. The four seats, from where the BJP has won are Sanker , Stok , Kungam and Sakti constituency. It was expected that there ...   READ MORE   Wireless intercept: PoK-handlers ask ultras to disturb peace in J&K 10/21/2010 11:41:55 PM BHARAT BHUSHAN EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 21: That they cannot digest an environment of peace in J&K once again became evident Wednesday when a PoK-based Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) commander asked his counterpart on this side of the border to "disturb peace in J&K". "You ought to keep the pot boiling till more trained militants from PoK join you," the PoK (Pakistan occupied Kashmir) HM commander said to a commander of his outfit on this side of the Line of Control (LoC) on a wireless set. Whole of the conversation was intercepted and recorded by Indian intelligence agencies, according to a senior police officer. He said the commanders were heard saying that to sabotage peace initiatives...   READ MORE   Broad daylight decoity at Gandhi Nagar; cash, jewellery looted 10/21/2010 11:41:41 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 21: In a broad daylight decoity, two persons today entered a house at Gandhi Nagar in the guise of PDD meter readers and robbed the family of cash and jewellery worth lakhs of rupees. The incident occurred at about 9.15 am when two persons entered the house of Ravi Gupta, son of Ishar Das Gupta, at Patel Nagar, Last Morh, Gandhi Nagar, and took the reading from electric meter at the entrance. The duo then told the family that there existed a fault in the electric circuit. To find out the fault, they went to all the rooms in the house. When they found that there were only three members in the house -- two women and 17-year-old Himanshu -- they took out knive...   READ MORE   HR activist 'raped' a Rajouri woman 10/21/2010 11:41:27 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT RAJOURI, Oct 21: Committing a heinous crime, a human rights activist and spiritual leader has been arrested by Rajouri police for allegedly raping women in Khandli area of border district Rajouri. As per reports, Rajouri police has arrested Sofi Mohammad Fazal, a human rights activists and former District President of J&K Human Rights Watch- a Non Governmental organization working for human rights. Sources said that Sofi was also known as revered spiritual leader in the district and thousands of people were visiting him for spiritual treatment. His arrest in rape case has created panic among the people of the area who were considering him as spiritual guru. As per ...   READ MORE   Separatists face fury of KPs, Sangh activists for 'echoing anti India views' Shoe hurled at Geelani at Delhi seminar , Hundreds of pro India protestors detained 10/21/2010 11:35:39 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT New Delhi, Oct 21: In the chain of shoe hurling incidents witnessed in recent past to register protest and anger, it was the turn of Hurriyat Conference hardliner Syed Ali Shah Geelani to be on the receiving end . Geelani was heckled by a group of protesters, including Kashmiri Pandits, for his anti India comments and views while he participated in a seminar organized at LTG auditorium complex near Mandi House here today. The seminar titles "Azadi- the only way " was organized by a group - Committee For Release of Political Prisoners. A large number of protestors holding national triclour and shouting pro India slogans like Bharat Mata Ki Jai……, Vande Matram, raised...   READ MORE   Amid vehement claims, timber mafia ruling roost in valley forests 10/21/2010 11:34:51 PM Syed Junaid Hashmi EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 21: Despite making tall claims, alleged illegal deforestation by timber mafia has caused extensive damage to forest wealth in Pir Panjal division from Khan Sahib to Gulmarg and its adjoining areas during the past many decades. Sources said that deforestation is going on despite heavy presence of personnel of Force Protection Force (FPF). They added that large number of stumps of chopped off trees in compartment numbers 30, 31, 32 and 33 which fall in forest range of tehsils viz. Beerwah and Khag of Budgam district and Tangmarg of district Baramulla indicating that these trees have been cut recently. Sources further added that dense fores...   READ MORE   Who the interlocutors in J&K must meet to know the truth 10/21/2010 11:34:31 PM RUSTAM EARLY TIMES REPORT Jammu, Oct 21: The displaced Kashmiri Hindus and the frightened Sikhs in the Kashmir Valley are not the only persons the interlocutors on J&K must meet with to know the truth. They must spend most of the time in Jammu province and interact with cross-sections of society there, including refugees. It is imperative. It is Jammu province that houses people who have suffered enormously during all these years of independence at the hands of the Kashmiri leaders at all levels and in all spheres. It is hardly necessary to point out here that the people of Jammu province have no say whatsoever in the governance of the state, notwithstanding the inclusion of a few person...   READ MORE   Preach secession and become vice-chancellor or chairman of Jammu and Kashmir bank 10/21/2010 11:34:11 PM EARLY TIMES REPORT JAMMU, Oct 21: There are reports that former Vice-Chancellor of Jammu University, Amitabh Mattoo, who converted the highest seat of learning in the Jammu province into a den of undesirable activities during his tenure of six long years, has not given up the hope. He is, according to reliable sources, trying his level best to become Vice-Chancellor of the sanctioned Central University of Jammu. He may succeed. After all, during the past about ten years, the state has seen controversial persons/track-II operatives and protagonists of greater autonomy, self-rule, independence and Pakistan becoming Vice-Chancellors of the universities and Chairman of J&K Bank. It all started...   READ MORE   797 policemen died on duty in one year 10/21/2010 11:33:52 PM AGENCIES NEW DELHI, Oct 21: At least 800 police and para-military personnel sacrificed their lives in the past one year during operations or attacks on them with CRPF topping the list with 191 such cases. A total of 797 personnel from state police and para-military forces like BSF, CRPF and NSG were killed during a period from September 1, 2009 and August 31 this year. CRPF, which is in the forefront of anti-Naxal operations, topped the list of casualties with 191 which included 76 personnel who laid their lives in Chhattisgarh's Dantewada. Uttar Pradesh and BSF followed CRPF in casualties with 99 and 64 cases respectively. During 2008 September and August last year, the police forces l...   READ MORE

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